I just got off the phone with Cheaptrick who has always liked the Nikon Monarchs. I reminded myself about the first deer I shot with the 3-9x40 Monarch I picked up from SWFA. I also picked up a 2-7 Monarch at the same time but it is gloss. It wasn't a good fit for the Remington M7 SS in .260 I have.This shot is of a small falls on a brook where I was hunting. It surfaced from underground in the cedars just 100 yards away. They are about five feet tall.

Further in on the same stream was what all of us whitetail hunters are looking for. Big

Bigger

Biggest

I found his ground scrape line and set up some false scrapes. All of them were being hit daily (nightly). I found what I thought was great ambush spot near a beaver pond off this same brook. I'm not big on deer blinds and prefer to still hunt. So I sat on a deadfall.

The weather was awful. Warm and no wind, unusual for the Lake Superior region in November. Anyway, my excitement over the great buck sign, my set up and my new rig with the Monarch paid off.

.....................with a meat deer

This wasn't the deer I was looking for as you can see from the sign. I also would prefer a doe over a small buck. Two things, though. Due to wolves and snow depths in my area, there is no doe hunting because of the low deer densities. Secondly, this darn buck almost walked over me. He stood there @ twenty five yards for what seemed to be forever. He basically dared me to test the remarkable abilities of a 3-9 on a .260.He still tasted great and his ribs will be used on my next black bear hunt in dah U.P. of Michigan!

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